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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in Processed Pork Meat
Deise F Costa1, Flávio Fowler1, Claudio Silveira2
11 Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo, Brazil .
Abstract:
Toxoplasma gondii infection may be attributed to the ingestion of pork meat and contaminated water. In southern Brazil, the prevalence of blindness caused by T. gondii is the highest in the world. Our purpose is to determine the frequency of T. gondii DNA in commercial fresh sausage and cured salami samples from Rio Grande do Sul state, south of Brazil. A total of 118 samples (sausage and salami) from 8 different producers were collected and DNA was extracted. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technique was performed to detect T. gondii DNA using B1 marker. The frequency of T. gondii DNA among the total number of samples (sausage and salami) was 39% (46/118). Among these, a higher frequency of positivity was observed in the sausage samples (47.5%) when compared with the salami samples (17%). However, the mean parasite concentration was significantly higher in the salami samples. The prevalence of T. gondii DNA in fresh sausage and cured salami may indicate that infected pigs may be an important source of infections and a public health hazard to be considered.
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